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If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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If others examined themselves attentively, as I do, they would find themselves, as I do, full of inanity and nonsense. Get rid of it I cannot without getting rid of myself.
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All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.
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Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.
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It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.
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We owe subjection and obedience to all our kings, whether good or bad, alike, for that has respect unto their office but as to esteem and affection, these are only due to their virtue.
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What am I to choose? Choose what you please, as long as you choose. There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.
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There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains the most universal quality is diversity.
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Authors communicate with the people by some special extrinsic mark I am the first to do so by my entire being, as Michel de Montaigne.
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Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
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Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
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Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.
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My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and society. Elsewhere I have only a verbal authority, and vague. Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has no spot at home where he can be at home to himself-to court himself and hide away.
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I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.
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No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
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When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
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This idea is more surely understood by interrogation WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales.
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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
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No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.
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There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.
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